Book review - Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium (by Caroline Potter)
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Is there a better tale to capture the imagination of a young child than that of Beowulf? It’s the original...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW20
Critics’ Choice Alert! The Requiem by Arnold Rosner (1945-2013) is magnificent. Completed in 1973, it originated from an abortive plan...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2020
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi is a polymath: he is a singer, conductor and translator, but it is for his work as a...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW20
The importance in Armenian culture of Komitas (1869-1935), priest-monk, composer, arranger, transcriber, conductor, can hardly be overestimated. The accuracy of...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: AW20
It was as recently as July that I welcomed a high-quality recording of Jommelli’s Requiem that at last superseded a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW20
Jamie Barton’s all-embracing talent – her powerful presence, her spectacular vocal equipment – has a whole lot of Heggie to...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW20
It’s not often that works by Bruckner and Stravinsky are paired together, but the two Masses on this release make...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW20
A whole generation has elapsed since René Jacobs’s much-admired disc of Bach motets (Harmonia Mundi, 7/97), and even its high...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: AW20
When Bach Collegium Japan performed the St John Passion in London early on in their spring 2020 European tour –...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: AW20
Where might the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir head after Berio’s Coro, pondered Gramophone’s review of the ensemble’s last recording (6/20). The...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW20
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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